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reverse proxy not working as expected

I'm having an isue with reverse proxy using ARR, the issue is we have recently deployed a content management system, which alows users to create promotional URLs that can be redirected to internal or external URLs, the problem we are having is with redirects
to external URLs. so to test i have created a promotional ULR '/test' to go to
www.google.com, this works as expected locally, now when i go through the reverse proxy it redirects back to itself.

our environment: CMS resides on app tier, users access via public tier, which then reverse proxies to private tier, all other aspects are working except the external redirects. I have used fiddler and can see the response location changes to public site
when it should be www.google.com.

Re: reverse proxy not working as expected

You need to uncheck the box for 'Reverse rewrite host in response headers" in ARR under Server Proxy Settings. When a redirect is happening, it is rewriting the hostname, which is why you are seeing the public site instead of your intended redirect site.